Chapter Text
(Kryoz POV)
“John?” The cheer coach, Ms. Rolin, asked while looking around the room. Kryoz raises his hand and she smiles at him. “Let’s go to the gym so you can show me what you can do.”
“Okay.” He says, following behind her. In the gym is a long mat, a scale, and table next to the bleachers with some small cups and a water cooler sitting on top.
“I don’t want you to think the scale is gonna determine if you get to join or not.” She says cautiously, “It’s just for me to see if you’d be a good fit for flyer.” Kryoz nods and steps onto the scale. Ms. Rolin writes down his weight and smiles before nodding to the mat. Kryoz steps onto as the coach walks to the side to watch him. He breathes a bit before going into a small tumbling routine he learned when he was in gymnastics a few years ago. Ms. Rolin smiles brightly as Kryoz then goes into another routine he learned. After he stops, she comes up to him, “That was awesome, hunny!” She says, her clipboard held tightly against her body. “Now, the only thing left is to check if you can yell.”
“Uh,” Kryoz starts “I went to a heavy metal concert with my friend last year and he was able to hear me clearly over the music, if that counts? It was one of the band's loudest songs.” She laughs before nodding.
“Yes, that counts. I understand how embarrassing it is to yell in a quiet room.” She sympathizes. “That’ll be all for today. You can sit with the others back in my room.” Kryoz nods as they both head back into the classroom. Puffer looks up from his phone after Kryoz sits next to him. All they do is nod to each other and go back into their own worlds.
A few girls go in and out of the gym with the coach, some proud and others worried. Soon everyone has gone through the tests and Ms. Rolin is about to announce who made the team when two girls start fighting.
“I am so much better than you, Jessica!” One yells
“You can’t even do a proper toss, Riley!” The girl who Kryoz guesses is Jessica screams back to the first girl. And they continue going back and forth at each other while Ms. Rolin is trying to stop them. That’s when Kryoz has enough of the screaming.
“SHUT UP!” He screams to both girls, who immediately stop and stare at him. Everyone else in the room stares at him as well. “It is NOT that deep. Both of you suck, how about that? If you’re equal, will you stop yelling?” Both of the girls that were fighting look shocked while some others start giggling but ultimately nod and go to separate corners. Ms. Rolin smiles at Kryoz before projecting the google doc she had made on her smartboard.
Kryoz had made it onto the team. And that little stunt he pulled. It made him captain.
…
When John's alarm woke him up, he, at first, didn't want to wake up. Until he remembered the cheer captain results get posted today, he didn't think he'd get it since it was his first year at this school but there's always a chance. But, through much complaint from his body, he got out of bed and got dressed. He picked out a simple shirt with some layered necklaces, baggy pants, rings, and a pair of black jordans. He originally thought it was gonna be too hot for a jacket or anything, but when he checked the weather, it turned out it was actually gonna be a bit chilly. Which is honestly surprising for August, but he went ahead and picked out a flannel then put it on. (his fit)
John goes downstairs to the kitchen, where his mom is sitting at the table with breakfast already laid out. He sits down across from her and begins to pick things out from the array of different food. (really just eggs, pancakes, biscuits, and some gravy but he can pretend there's more.)
"So," his mother begins, slowly eating her own food. "Are you ready for your first day back? Only one more year until you graduate." He looks up from his plate just as he finishes making his biscuit, syrup, and gravy mixture.
"Eh, it's gotten to the point where I'm more excited to see my friends rather than graduate school." He replies, now eating his own concoction. She nods and turns to the clock on the wall, it says 7:15. "You'd better get going soon, John." his mom says to him while collecting the dishes and placing them in their respective places, that being the fridge or sink depending on if the dish was empty or not.
"Make sure you put your plate in the sink." She says before giving John a small peck on the head. "I'm heading out, don't be late."
John nods before quickly finishing his food and putting his own dishes in the sink. Once he’s made sure he has everything he needs, he leaves the house, locking the door behind him, and goes to his car. He gets in, buckles up, and turns on the engine.
…
The bell rings just as Kryoz walks into the school, and people start flooding the hallways. There's people coming from both the middle school and high school gyms and the cafeteria while some others are just now getting out of their cars. Chris, also known as BigPuffer online and the one who got John into cheer, walks over to him with a few of their other friend's following.
"So you weren't joking, huh?" Grizzy says to him, bringing him into a tight hug. No wonder his mascot is a bear.
"Nah," Kryoz says after pulling away from the hug. "My mom thought it was time for a change."
Grizzy chuckles softly and the group begins walking to find their classes. "What do you have first?" Pezzy asks him and Kryoz shrugs. Pezzy groans before pulling Kryoz's backpack off to dig for his schedule. "You have English first with Mrs. Kamery, she's pretty chill." Droid turns his head with excitement before exclaiming that he, too, has Mrs. Kamery's class first. After going over each guy's schedule, they all disperse and head to their respective classrooms.
"So, did you hear that Evan and Matt are coming here, too?" Droid says and Kryoz nods.
"Yeah, Evan told me last week."
"I haven't seen them yet, so I don't know if they're actually here."
"Probably," Kryoz yawns before both men walk into their class. "Evan's never late to anything, Matt just barely scraps by with time." Droid giggles and they take a seat together. A few minutes go by, with a few random students going in and out of the room, before Evan walks in. The two already sitting beckon him over and he sits with him.
"Hey." Vanoss says, Kryoz nods to him while slightly raising his hand and Droid ecstatically waves his hand. A few more students file in, a girl with dirty-blonde hair and bright blue eyes sits next to Vanoss, who immediately begins talking to her. She seems to accept his company happily and they giggle away. Droid stares at Vanoss before slowly turning his head back to Kryoz, who just shrugs. Soon after, the teacher enters the classroom and begins her rant about her classroom procedures and everything.
...
"Okay, everyone," Mrs. Kamery says "Make sure you get the syllabus signed. It's an easy 100, and you get candy for it." The bell rings after she finishes speaking and the kids begin filing out of her room. As Kryoz is walking to his next class, the girl Vanoss was talking to runs up to him.
"Wait," She says, panting slightly and he stops walking. "You're Kryoz, right?" Kryoz nods and the girl smiles. "I'm Danica, I hang out with Evan and Tyler a lot so I know some of y'all's names." She chuckles
"Oh, if you're friends with them, then you can call me John. That's fine." He replies and she nods. "You and Evan seem really close."
"Yeah, he's really nice. I met him through Kelly." Danica laughs "Oh, wait! Kelly is Tyler's girlfriend. I don't know if you've met her before." Kryoz shakes his head.
"No, I didn't even know he had a girlfriend." Kryoz chuckles. "What class do you have next?"
"Uhhh....," She pulls out her schedule and shows him "Art."
"Oh, I have that for 5th."
"Aw, man." Danica frowns "Oh, before I leave, You can call me Dani!" Kryoz nods and Dani runs off to the art room.
...
(Blarg POV)
The bell rings, signifying it's now 2nd period, and SMii7Y shakes him awake. "Dude, you slept through the entirety of first period.." He laughs, while helping Blarg shove stuff into his backpack.
"Oh." Blarg simply says before zipping his bag. The friends walk out of the room while comparing schedules, they don't really have many classes together. "I have art next, apparently. I don't know how, but I do."
"They prolly put it on there because some other elective you picked was full or something." SMii7Y says, "You have that with Evan's girl." Blarg stops walking for a second to think about that statement.
"Are they dating?" He says, SMii7Y pulls him along to get him to start walking again.
"No, but they act like it. I think she likes him."
"Hm. I'm so tired, man." He laughs before stopping, SMii7Y almost leaves him before realizing he stopped. "This is the art room. I think." He checks the room number in his schedule, then checks the room number on the door.
"It is." Blarg says, waving to Smii7Y as he walks inside. SMii7Y chuckles before going to find his own class. When Blarg walks in, Grizzy immediately pulls him into a hug and he almost falls asleep right there. Grizzy is so warm. Genuinely, like have you gotten a hug from this guy?
"Yo, man." A girl sitting next to Grizzy says, Blarg takes a minute to think about who it is before realizing.
"OH MY GOD! HI DANI!!" He yells, causing people to look at him. Danica and Grizzy laugh as they all sit down in the back. "How are you?" he asks her and she just smiles.
"Been good. Evan and Tyler almost took off my finger last week because they tried putting a ring on me. It was like three sizes too small but Tyler's mom was able to get it off using some butter and ice water." She laughs, and both men laugh with her.
The teacher walks into the room as the late bell rings. He introduces himself as Mr. Wolffeas he passes out the class syllabus. The teacher begins to go over his class rules, expectations, blah blah blah. Blarg looks around the room at the other students in the room, who are either drawing or just not paying any attention to what Mr. Wolfe is saying, and decides he is going to draw a little bit, too. Mainly because seeing more of his friends that he hasn't actually met in person yet made him wide awake. Blarg draws a small stick figure in a field that looks a bit too much like a child’s drawing, gives up halfway through making the spiky grass, then turns to his friends. Dani is also drawing, but her’s is a lot better than Blarg’s, while Grizzy is staring out of a window.
”Psst,” Blarg whispers towards Grizzy, who turns to face him. “What are doing?”
”Watching the clouds.” Grizzy whispers back, “It’s making weird shapes and it’s kinda funny.” Blarg strains his head around Grizzy to try and see the clouds he’s talking about but he fails. Dani giggles at them before telling Grizzy to look back to the clouds.
”Wait, what?” Blarg asks her, and she motions to her extremely detailed drawing of Grizzy looking at clouds shaped like penises. Blarg almost bursts out laughing but contains himself when Mr. Wolfe glares at him. After that, Blarg just decides to look somewhere random in the classroom as Dani went back to her drawing. Mr. Wolfe begins to hand out ANOTHER paper though, and this time it's a worksheet telling the students to tell the teacher about themselves. Blarg fills out the paper before stopping on the last question.
'What is something you'd like to tell me?' This question stumps Blarg for some reason, and he doesn't know why. Maybe it's because his teachers in Canada never asked this question before, or maybe it's because he has this dilemma he's been pondering for a bit now. Is he gay? Why he thinks about this when seeing this particular question is beyond him but he just sits there. Thinking about it for a majority of the remaining class time before scribbling down a messy 'no' and turning the paper in. Now is not the time to be questioning his sexuality, he'll think about it later when he's able to talk to Dani properly and alone.
...
"Finally," Blarg sighs, it's the last period of the day and he can play his instrument. "Band.." Grizzy walks with him but doesn't pay him any mind, instead talking with another kid in drumline. Dani sympathizes with Blarg, though, agreeing with his relief. Their show for this year, Temptation, was actually really fun to work on and the music for it was really cool. Blarg goes to his locker when gets to the band room, gets out his mellophone, and heads to his seat.
"Hey, Matt!" One of the rookies says to him as he sits down. Blarg just raises his hand with a small wave before playing a random part on the show. Soon, however, the band director comes out of his office and steps onto the podium, which means it's probably time for them to start playing as a full band and working on their music. Mr. Tyree goes over some stuff about their fundraiser before they begin to warm up, just doing simple long tones, before actually working on different parts in their show. Most of the parts Tyree decided to work on today were parts in the woodwinds, so Blarg mainly just sat there trying to not fall asleep whenever he didn't play. After they got released and were able to get up and talk with friends, Blarg went to the percussion section to talk with Grizzy and Danica.
"So, uh," Blarg starts, "I really wanted to talk to you about this, Dani, but Gribby can hear too just because he might know some answers to my question." He says, and Grizzy perks his head up from playing with Dani's lanyard after hearing his name. She unsnaps her lanyard from her keychain and Grizzy snatches it before it falls to the ground.
"What about?" She says now looking at Blarg with a somewhat worried expression. There's been too many private conversations between Dani and Blarg where he's told her about many concerning incidents happening around him.
"Uh.. I think I might be gay?" Blarg whispers and both of his friends stop all movement before Grizzy snaps Dani's lanyard back into its rightful place.
"What?!" He whisper-yells "Really? Damn, that means I owe Puffer some money big time." Dani just laughs as Blarg stands there in shock.
"You bet on whether or not I was gay?" He laughs out. Grizzy just nods while Dani continues laughing.
"I bet that you were not gay, actually." Grizzy says, "Puffer was the one that thought you were gay."
"Oh my god," Dani gasps out. "That's amazing."
author note: so uh, this might not be the greatest but uh, ye. im not really the greatest at writing and i typically have my sister help me bc she's like wattpad famous but I dont have her help bc I wanted to do this by myself and she doesnt know who these youtubers are so yeah. uh js like let me know if it's bad and this is gonna be tho only chapter with an author note unless it's really important. (like hiatus or something.)